odor
Example Sentences
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Media reports said investigators were probing whether airport traffic controllers were distracted by a separate odor issue on a United Airlines flight -- the emergency to which the fire truck was responding.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
This Florida timeshare sounds like out-of-date cheese with a bad odor.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026
Back in Hawaii, the former congresswoman has been in bad odor for years.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
“Oh, my God, he sprayed something on her,” a witness can be heard saying in video footage of the incident, before adding that it had a foul odor.
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2026
After what felt like an eternity of pushing and shoving and enough up-close-and-personal encounters with body odor to last a lifetime, I was finally outside in the mercifully fresh air.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.